I was driving my Geo Prizm down the highway today and I saw another Geo ahead of me going slightly less than the speed limit. I normally wouldn't have noticed it, but it was in great shape like mine is. Once it was behind me though, I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a Toyota emblem on the grill of the car. Being that it had said Geo Prizm on the back makes me wonder if this car was ever marketed with the Toyota emblem. Any ideas?
Thinks that make you go Hmmm....
Oct 17, 2006
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It was either a Corolla with a Prizm front clip, or a Prizm with a Corolla trunk lid.
Most likely, the owner damaged the front grille on his Prizm, went to a junkyard or Toyota dealer, got the grille from a Corolla, and put it on his Prizm.
Another possibility is that he got the emblem off of a Corolla and put it on in place of the Geo emblem. You may notice that the emblems for the Geo, Toyota, Lexus, and Scion are all about the same size and would fit in the same oval space allotted. My dad put a Soarer badge on his Supra because it fit.
My stepfather wanted a Chevy Tahoe many years ago but couldn't find one for the price he wanted to pay. So he bought a GMC Yukon instead and then went to the Chevy dealer and bought the Tahoe grill. After he replaced the Yukon grill he had the only Tahoe/Yukon around!
Must have been the Canadian version, the Tuquon. :-)
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It was hard to tell going 60MPH, but this prizm was in great shape and never looked like it had been wrecked so I'm guessing they probably just got themselves an emblem from somewhere. God, I've turned into such a Prizm/toyota groupie.
Where the hell did he get a Soarer badge?
And, why the hell didn't he put it on a Lexus SC400, where it belongs!?
;)
Instead of a Political hack? (SORRY! Couldn't resist! ;)
Probably just messin with ya.
He got it from a friend of his in Japan who can get pretty much anything he wants that is Toyota/Lexus -related.
He originally had it on his Supra, then put in on the LS. I've been trying to talk him into the SC, but he prefers sedans now.
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